I didn't think I was going to spend 30 minutes watching people dig an excavator out of a mud pit, but here I am enjoying it more than discovery channel in my hotel.
Thinking back to your lowboy crawl a couple vlogs back as I'm binge watching your recoveries got me to thinking about some videos a couple years back of MASSIVE equipment transports where every individual trailer had electric independent steering (& drive)... I wonder how much faster and safer you could get staged if you incorporated low-speed steering on your lowboys to turn the rear of them into sharp turns way faster... I've watched some of your fabrication videos & I'm positive your shop could do the mods & safety speed restrictions completely in-house. Just my penny's worth of possibilities...
21:45 Folks standing amongst those cables gave me the shivers... You Mention 22:11 "A bad time for everyone, if one of these cables breaks"... I'm a former Navy Sailor that went to Nam on an "Oiler" (USS Mispillion AO105) and witnessed (or I should say, saw the aftermath) of an emergency breakaway while refueling an aircraft carrier. The cables we used were heavier than yours and when they snapped... Gawd, it was pretty crazy the damage done to the steel super structure of our ship from the whipping cable. Stand clear folks... we heard the horror stories from the crew who'ed been onboard for years and I won't repeat that here, but one can only imagine the destructive power of a snapped cable.
That is a huge FACT!! Yea, I will not say what would happen to a human body if one of them were to snap, much less the damage to piece of steel.. I was in the US Navy as well, and heard some stories. I was on the USS Kansas City AOR 3 when we had a emergency breakaway.. Not fun at all..
I like the way heavy d stops and listen to his crew when they have suggestions. also nobody is shouting everyone is talking to each other. well respected heavy d
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I worked many years in heavy construction. This brought back many memories of those years. Sometimes the hurry to get unstuck made it worse. Mats are your friend, use them, bring more than you think you need from the very beginning. Bring the worst mats in your yard and leave the best ones for crane work. We have destroyed some mats but never left a machine behind.
Being a ironworker foreman for 30+ years and being around cranes and heavy equipment for my entire life, if I lived anywhere close to you I would sweep floors for free until you brought me on to your team! I absolutely love you're channel and the team you have are amazing!!!
You guys need 2 -way radios for cab communication. Beets hollering and hand waving. Moterolla makes fantastic short range models for your team. This was a fun video. Great watching a good team work.
I spotted something I have pretty big respect for, I mean of course I respect the entire hustle and getting people out of these situations and recovering their equipment and vehicles but one small detail I noticed Sparks do was around 15:00 when the other guy was like “let’s get that hook off” and he approached the bucket of sparks excavator, Sparks took his hands completely off the controls so that the machine is completely dead stopped which is a huge and good habit to be in, seen too many people get smacked because someone went to get something out of a bucket and the operator didn’t stop in his tracks and let go of the controls. Awesome job paying as close attention as possible and making sure no one gets hurt in these recoveries man. I’m in the landscaping industry and for those in that industry, in the construction industry, whatever industry you’re in with heavy equipment, always a good habit to have when you have hands on the ground helping you with things so you don’t have to get out of the machine a million times. I love these recovery videos and have been bingeing them since I found your channel, such a cool vibe and I don’t even watch tv anymore cause of this channel and channels like this over the past year that compose their videos to come out like a tv show but better, less commercials, more personal, better content. Can’t beat it. Stay safe and have fun out there Sparks and crew!
Its even better when they isolate the machine with the safety lever i came up with an idea 15 years ago with a red light green light on top of cab connected to safety lever when red light was on you couldn’t go near machine as soon as operators attention was had and green light was on you could do your business as a groundsman i have seen several companies adopt this over the years.
I rewatched that part. I see it was the guy with the red shirt. I can also predict what he would say if his arm or another body part of his ever got mangled up... "Oh, that's the way it came from the factory!" Lol! That guy's a hoot!
I'm very late to the show. Sorry about this late, late comment. I have spent, maybe 20 hours behind the controls of an excavator. I have watched, with awe, professionals grab 55 gallon drums filled with broken up concrete, turn them over, shake out the concrete, and put the drum in the recycle bin while I was the supervisor on a demolition project. I'm impressed that they got that machine stuck so well. Most operators can get those unstuck pretty easy (at least to the view of an amature). Edit: that is one big mud hole! No wonder it was stuck!
I guess the issue was the 450, I've never seen an excavator not been able to lift the tracks up by pushing the arm down, that machine was low on power it seems, all they needed to do was to lift both tracks on one side and put mats underneath, then swing to the other side and lift the tracks and push backwards at the same time
Its the suction of the mud that prevents lifting vehicle out of it. Like stepping in gooey mud and your shoe gets sucked off your foot. I learned a trick from a crusty old maintenance Master Sergeant when I was stationed in Germany. He had fabricated these long pipe sections that he could connect to an industrial air compressor. Drive the pipes under the stuck vehicle then blast air through them. The compressed air breaks the suction. We had an M113 that was stuck bigger that Stuttgart. Even tried an AVLS (M60 tank chassis based bridge launcher) to no avail. So this MSG pulls up, rigs up his pipes, blasts air under the M113, and we pull (winch) it out with a 5-ton wheeled wrecker. I don't know why I've never seen this technique used on any of these recovery videos, but hope this gives someone else an idea. But if someone patents it, I want royalties.
That is a great idea. Haha. been a long time since I heard the phrase " Bigger than Stuttgart ". Was is Los? Der hund ist Los. I was stationed at Rivers Barracks ( The Zoo ) 1979 to 1983. A Btry 3rd Bn 79th FA Lance Missile unit.
Good point. When the English fought the French at Agincourt in 1415, the mud suction gave the English the victory. The English wore cloth, the French plate armor. If a French knight fell down in the muck, he could never get up as he was suctioned down into the mud. So an Englishman could just come over and stab the Frenchman through an appropriate hole. If a Frenchman fell face first, he would drown in his own armor. Mud can be nasty stuff.
The only machine I ever had to dig out that was mired in like that was an old Loraine drag shovel in a sand pit that hadn't been active in 4-5 years, so several years of wet seasons unmoved sitting on a sand bed, it had sank completely up to the cabin, To be fair, we were a little less kind with our choice of tools pulling it out. Dozers and skidders chained up together make for one hell of a pull. Still was a lot of digging, and work to get it out. The downside, the engine was not in serviceable condition so we pulled it out as complete dead weight
That’s crazy! I literally was part of the team who built the reservoir like 200 yards west of there back in 2011. We sunk a D6 up to the cab when we were digging for the dam embankment (among some other gear). That area has some of the worst clay, silt and liquefaction that I have ever seen in my life! I have a literally been stuck and lost boots from walking through it.
You obviously know what you are doing, but the amount of people standing next to cables under tension gives me the willies. Stay safe and keep doing great work!
I could tell pretty quick what kind of guy the owner was when he had his entire family with young kids getting close to watch it, he walked the taught pull rope like a tightrope, nobody was wearing any high vis or hardhats, the 450 squeaked constantly indicating it had no grease in any of the pins and was thus very poorly maintained, and the fact he had an ancient Cat D7 to help pull it free. All I'm saying is that I'm not super surprised he got that 450 that stuck.
I feel like a time lapse of the whole event from one high angle on jobs like this would be really cool. Throw it in at the end so we can see how the whole job went down in a minute or two ;)
That was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. You pretty much risked your own Excavator to get the other one out and saved one man's family of their livelihood. A big hug to you and your crew.
I really appreciate you guys. I'm a 66 year old African American who just love watching you guys. I love the respect and since of fun you guys have. I also like the way that you look out for people that are less fortunate. You guys are the epitome of doing the right thing and good fortune comes to you. Love it.
That was awesome and you helped the regular working hard family out of something that no one else could have! Excellent job and team work and excellent planning! I ❤️ watching this stuff!
Same here , I'm 55 tho. I had a chance back around 88 or 89 to go to school for free to learn to operate heavy equipment. They had a program here in Atlanta that gave you free lunch and paid for your bus fare to and from school . I was 18 or 19 at the time . My mom talked me out of it 😐. Always wished I would have went .
@@blackandbluecamaro2877 Hey there! I'm a bisexual Iranian dog with dryer lint in my trousers. Just dropping by to say that I sure love your work! Take care!
Heavy D, from previous experience recovering Abrams Tanks and other similar heavy equipment from the mus. I have pumped air into the belly with hoses to counteract the mud's suction power and was sucessfull. put that one on the log for the next recovery!
You should consider buying some anti-whip blankets. You lay them over cables and straps to absorb the initial energy if they break. A broken cable almost cut my truck in half and I will not pull again without them. Cheap insurance
add to that he was in an open seat/cockpit, no door or cage even not that itd prob help anyway. yeah I agree, def must have when doing super heavy stuff like this.
I agree but then this video would not be a vehicle for his overwhelming macho self image. Everything is about him and his self image. The camera angles , the music, the "aren't I wonderful", everything is about him.
As a safety guy who has investigated too many trench collapses, these conditions really make me nervous with the combination of unconsolidated ground and water plus a lot of vibration from heavy equipment. As the video showed, those sides were very unstable and prone to sloughing. I was happy to see one side of the hole looked to be sloped back pretty well, the other side was a bit too vertical for my liking. It might be worth installing some shoring for projects like this in the future, but It seemed like everyone was aware of the hazards for the most part. You guys did good work and showed excellent communication. It's always a pleasure to see a group of professionals at work.
Well, in the army engineering corps the general thesis is, -you never pull a vehicle, with a vehicle lighter that the one you wise to pull. That could well be a sound thesis. Great and entertaining video.Glad to see the guy got his digger back.
@Yippee Skippy Using blokes only increases the pull ability. It doesn't change the weight of the pulling vehicle (the anchor point). A 5 ton truck doesn't become a 30 ton armoured vehicle.
Matts is what saved the machine, it would've keep digging in without them. I did pipeline work for several years all through swamps, we used matts to do everything, we had one to fall in a sinkhole and the operator had to climbed out the top lid, it went down that fast like quicksand, took 3 days to dig it out, and 3 excavators and a dozer. Fun times. Enjoy the videos
@@caseygiles1368 truthfully, I don't even know what a hella mat is, I worked for NC natural gas in the 80s and 90s, all our pipeline went through the worst possible land they could use for a right away. I really enjoyed pipeline work but NC doesn't pay well.
@@JelMain that's a very curious piece of info. it's cool that you can trace your lineage that far back, really gives you a healthier perspective on life i know that my grand grand father war a blacksmith in a Siberian village, early 1900s, and he got kicked in the chest by a horse during horse shoe-ing process
@@TheBinaryHappiness Those were the days. The family was prominent in the town, which stopped for his funeral. Although we can't trace the lineage before c1760, their trade indicates they were from Orkney, in the clan which was headed by St Magnus, and from there the Sagas go back to c500CE, including such lovely people of Eric Bloodaxe. On the other side, with one uncertainty during the French Revolution when identities were fluid, we go back to Rome - but then again, so does much of Europe!
We have 4 450's they didn't come with much tracking power. You can multiple your towing power by hooking to the top of the track pads and not have to rely on the drives as much. Good job guys Northern Minnesota here and when we're stuck at 20 below it adds another twist.
@@99PMoon i dont think a moving blanket will stop a wire of that caliber.... it works great for small chains and ratchet straps though. But these cables they are hauling are heavy AF
Amazing rescue...but the amount of people still near the cables under full pull is crazy...they'll rip you to pieces faster than a blink... either use weighted bags on them or double the distance on the people ❤❤❤
Damn! First time to your channel and I'm impressed! This 72 year old retired teacher would have you as a neighbour in a heart beat. No! I don't need a backhoe operator... but a man with his head screwed on right... who knows how to treat others .. and what is really important in life ... and who works hard ..... with honesty ... you are my kind of human being! Stay safe , sir!
I'm sitting here going come on, come on. Turn that turret on the 450 around, the counter weight is dragging and use that bucket to push. Soon as I thought that, he did it YEAH
Don't know why this popped up on my feed but it was both the most stressful and satisfying thing I've watched in a while!! I'll be subbing to this channel!
Same for me, I ignored it a few times but finally clicked it. Here's why: 1) you love your equipment as much as your dog; wouldn't you jump in a swamp to save it? 2) you're probably subbed to AvE. If not, then you should. 3) very high production quality, camera and editing.
I work on excavators at a dealer. That machine needs a pump/ work group adjustment. Not enough pressure going to the travel motors or work group. A simple turn of a couple reliefs would have made that recovery much easier.
So your saying that the track that moves it forward and reverse had minimized power and by tweaking some, ; valves? Would have gave it power to travel faster ?
@@rolannolan9336 man this is a major life hack for anyone in that industry lol can never learn too much here on the good old UA-cam hopefully guy saw your post !
@@srjr2531 proper adjustment is what he is referring to. It is not a life hack. You will regret turn that screw with out knowing what you are working with or the tools to view your tampering
When I first saw it, I thought 4 hours tops. Just not really that stuck. Another day in the office for us marine guys. After watching you guys, I'm thinking you spent closer to 8. A 12 ton machine with 30" wide tracks and no blade will make your life much better. In the future pick the sides up rather than toes and break the suction first. Saves tons of shovel work. Dig a short flat spot to walk up on mats without toeing up and then push yourself out. Could have been out the day he did it. Best part is , you got 3 million plus views.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but I would place a few heavy rubber mats on the wires and slings when pulling mate... Always plan for worst case, if they snapped there was several people within "severing" reach. Just a suggestion, loved the vid and mad respect for your work ethic and the way you treat everyone.
They wouldn't severe anybody in half all they would do is hurt them in a royal fashion the only way I know this is cause I watched an episode of mythbusters that showed that snapping wire will not cut someone in half it'll hurt them like I said but there would be no severing its all a myth but I do see where ur coming from
So, what was the 'owner' trying to do when he got stuck? What signals did he miss that allowed him to keep digging when he was in a hole he couldn't emerge from? I have a backhoe and I don't want to make the same errors while I'm digging my borrow pit.
Diggin down in what you think is only "soft" ground. you start seeing water seepage on either side get out. the ground youre digging is compact and solid but as you dig down and water seeps out from the sides in youll get stuck if you dont get out ASAP. Pretty sure this guy was in a dry area rain happened and then didnt back out and boom stuck.
I know I’m late to the party here I’m gonna say 40 hours at the 52 second mark… I know a lot of editing goes into these however less than a day wow… I’m amazed
On next episode 5 ton wrecker gets beefed up with a stupid amount of pull power and is built with solid front bar that doesn't bend when anchored..it would be good to see some of the military stuff getting rebuilt for heavy duty recovery
Ya'll must have the best karma in the world doing a recovery like that and helping out the cera gordo dude out just out of kindness. Many blessings , SMR
If I had it I would help 2 I love doing that stuff but my Tahoe and Toyota truck just won't do it !!! Like go to work or pull that out with all them big ass toys no brainer I'm playing till it's done 100% and having a great time !!
Had a coworker stick a similar excavator in a bog hole, here in interior Alaska. Once he moved onto that ground it began to sink and it was above the tracks before he could rotate the arm around and claw free. It took a 980 hooked to a 40 ton haul truck to reef it out. Took about four hours.
Great job, looked like a lot of fun. I like all the "Factory" stuff on the big truck specially the bumper and tail lights, lol. Y'all are great, hope to meet y'all some day
Dude , That was amazing . I am sure the owner lost , many sleepless nights wondering if his machine was still there or continued sinking . I am glad you guys have a niche .
I'd dealt with similar, and this is what a guy taught me: If possible, dig a pit nearby. Put in a honking big pump (at least 4 inch hose two would be better) and de-water the ground...just pump it somewhere else. Then you can work without 'pumping up' the soil so much when you move the equipment.
First I want to say I have never dealt with pulling something that huge and heavy out of a hole.. Question: Would it have been easier to grade, the way they were pulling this out, back further so that the incline would be less & dig about a foot under the tracks, so when you put the mats down, the top of the mats would be level to the bottom of the tracks? Just curious if anyone else had the same opinion.
This was Great! I love it when you do heavy duty problem solving like this. Now you need to do a one hour show on having an industrial level Blacksmith repair the 5 ton's bumper. Also, five ton wreckers are cool but if want awesome, you need to get an Army 10 ton wrecker or the heavy tank recovery vehicle. VTR M88. The M88 is designed to rescue 50 ton tanks, has a huge winch and a spade blade on the front to anchor it while doing so. You will need a dragon wagon, (super duty Army low boy and 10 ton tractor) to move it around. It's not too road friendly, even though it has rubber on steel treads. I think it weighs around 80 tons.
You did well. 50 years ago I graduated in engineering. The first company I worked for was a mining company. They had a 17 yard drag line. It got stuck. It was the operators not the engineers that figured out how to get it out. Took almost a week. We used a lot of trees. Ground you were in looked like what we had dry on top, silty wet sand under that when disturbed would sink a pickup.
When you tried to lift the tracks before you started to pull it since you didn't remove the dirt from under the counter weight you essentially moved the pivot point from behind the tracks to the bottom corner of the counter weight so instead of just lifting the front of the tracks you had to lift the entire excavator up and pivot on the counter weight.
@@michaelmason9367 why are you guessing the time in someone else's comment? It prob won't be seen when they look for answers in the comments...just a heads up.
If you dig a sump hole and submerge a cheep (electric) pump you can run it over night and pull the ground water out of an area. Clay is tricky but that’s what we do when working in south Louisiana
@@assassinlexx1993 it does usually ruin the pump, but you can burry a hose too, if you have a trash pump that self primes and can run dry. Asphalt really doesn’t harden in the summer time, it’s part of why our roads aren’t great. It’s kinda just an anti slip surface we cover the mud with 🤣🤣
This was superb viewing, informative too as we got a glimpse into the real world of heavy equipment recovery from challenging terrain. It was hugely enjoying seeing those tracks clear and to see movement, nice too was seeing the lovely family whose investment was finally coming home. Great video, excellent narration and editing, subscribed.
Seeing the bumper on the 5 ton going all Picasso reinforces my thoughts on making a spine other than the frame to tie the rear hitch point to a front hitch point. The spine would be the load bearing portion on extreme pulls that require an anchor.
Great job guys! On a side note, I work in excavations and I would seriously consider some sort of shoring or sloping. I've witnessed one to many deaths in my 28 yrs of dirt work. Stay safe
@@TheAnonymous1one with steep walls of dirt, especially when saturated with water, the walls become extremely unstable. They could give way at any given moment and crush anybody that it falls on. They should've at least stepped the walls or done 34° slope.
Im binge watching from 7 yrs back till now, I guessed 14 hrs, but no where did it say how long cept it took one day.. great job men and MAMA out there digging too. I love love all your content!
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I didn't think I was going to spend 30 minutes watching people dig an excavator out of a mud pit, but here I am enjoying it more than discovery channel in my hotel.
My guess 9hrs 45minutes
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It's basically the same content, but with less commercials. The triumph of decentralized content creation at work.
Thinking back to your lowboy crawl a couple vlogs back as I'm binge watching your recoveries got me to thinking about some videos a couple years back of MASSIVE equipment transports where every individual trailer had electric independent steering (& drive)... I wonder how much faster and safer you could get staged if you incorporated low-speed steering on your lowboys to turn the rear of them into sharp turns way faster... I've watched some of your fabrication videos & I'm positive your shop could do the mods & safety speed restrictions completely in-house. Just my penny's worth of possibilities...
It'll take you less than 12 hours
21:45 Folks standing amongst those cables gave me the shivers... You Mention 22:11 "A bad time for everyone, if one of these cables breaks"... I'm a former Navy Sailor that went to Nam on an "Oiler" (USS Mispillion AO105) and witnessed (or I should say, saw the aftermath) of an emergency breakaway while refueling an aircraft carrier. The cables we used were heavier than yours and when they snapped... Gawd, it was pretty crazy the damage done to the steel super structure of our ship from the whipping cable.
Stand clear folks... we heard the horror stories from the crew who'ed been onboard for years and I won't repeat that here, but one can only imagine the destructive power of a snapped cable.
That is a huge FACT!! Yea, I will not say what would happen to a human body if one of them were to snap, much less the damage to piece of steel..
I was in the US Navy as well, and heard some stories. I was on the USS Kansas City AOR 3 when we had a emergency breakaway.. Not fun at all..
You can see that they were just lightly tensioning it, not really pilling yet.
Thank you for your service. USN SSN-660 AE-18 ‘69 - ‘75 nuke electrician. USS Paricutin did UNREPS. Then I was IC rigging communications.
They were standing there to see where the cables landed when pulled tight. They weren't putting any serious tension on them.
42 hours... that is the answer to the universe so... 42 hours to dig and extract that huge stuck hardware out.
I like the way heavy d stops and listen to his crew when they have suggestions. also nobody is shouting everyone is talking to each other. well respected heavy d
Yea I was surprised that no one was screaming. Everybody was chill and not stressed out.
I had that exact same thought a week ago after watching like 40 videos. I mean they could have just edited it all out, but I doubt it.
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You had me at “snatch blocks”. I love the use of heavy equipment combined with mechanical advantage.
14:16 That's a clear sign of a great family... wifey's down there, shoveling mud with the guys, helping clear those tracks!! Way to go girl!!
She is in great shape too after all those kids great woman !
She's laughing and smiling through the whole thing! What a woman!
32hrs. And 23mins.
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I worked many years in heavy construction. This brought back many memories of those years. Sometimes the hurry to get unstuck made it worse. Mats are your friend, use them, bring more than you think you need from the very beginning. Bring the worst mats in your yard and leave the best ones for crane work. We have destroyed some mats but never left a machine behind.
That was dug out the excavator was then covered with dirt to make it look like it got stuck. I've seen every stuck you can imagine
@@donjmartelli All of that just for a video? Perhaps..........
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Being a ironworker foreman for 30+ years and being around cranes and heavy equipment for my entire life, if I lived anywhere close to you I would sweep floors for free until you brought me on to your team! I absolutely love you're channel and the team you have are amazing!!!
You guys need 2 -way radios for cab communication. Beets hollering and hand waving. Moterolla makes fantastic short range models for your team. This was a fun video. Great watching a good team work.
I spotted something I have pretty big respect for, I mean of course I respect the entire hustle and getting people out of these situations and recovering their equipment and vehicles but one small detail I noticed Sparks do was around 15:00 when the other guy was like “let’s get that hook off” and he approached the bucket of sparks excavator, Sparks took his hands completely off the controls so that the machine is completely dead stopped which is a huge and good habit to be in, seen too many people get smacked because someone went to get something out of a bucket and the operator didn’t stop in his tracks and let go of the controls. Awesome job paying as close attention as possible and making sure no one gets hurt in these recoveries man. I’m in the landscaping industry and for those in that industry, in the construction industry, whatever industry you’re in with heavy equipment, always a good habit to have when you have hands on the ground helping you with things so you don’t have to get out of the machine a million times. I love these recovery videos and have been bingeing them since I found your channel, such a cool vibe and I don’t even watch tv anymore cause of this channel and channels like this over the past year that compose their videos to come out like a tv show but better, less commercials, more personal, better content. Can’t beat it. Stay safe and have fun out there Sparks and crew!
Its even better when they isolate the machine with the safety lever i came up with an idea 15 years ago with a red light green light on top of cab connected to safety lever when red light was on you couldn’t go near machine as soon as operators attention was had and green light was on you could do your business as a groundsman i have seen several companies adopt this over the years.
@@blinkerfluid4712 should be called blinker light instead
Hands off is first rule when bodies approach. Good catch.
Yup, if you're ground crew get a hands up visual and if you're operating honk the fuckin horn at em if they just approach without visual.
I rewatched that part. I see it was the guy with the red shirt. I can also predict what he would say if his arm or another body part of his ever got mangled up... "Oh, that's the way it came from the factory!" Lol! That guy's a hoot!
Watching one cat dig out his friend! Nature is beautiful! So heartwarming!
I'm very late to the show. Sorry about this late, late comment. I have spent, maybe 20 hours behind the controls of an excavator. I have watched, with awe, professionals grab 55 gallon drums filled with broken up concrete, turn them over, shake out the concrete, and put the drum in the recycle bin while I was the supervisor on a demolition project. I'm impressed that they got that machine stuck so well. Most operators can get those unstuck pretty easy (at least to the view of an amature). Edit: that is one big mud hole! No wonder it was stuck!
I guess the issue was the 450, I've never seen an excavator not been able to lift the tracks up by pushing the arm down, that machine was low on power it seems, all they needed to do was to lift both tracks on one side and put mats underneath, then swing to the other side and lift the tracks and push backwards at the same time
Just found you guys and subscribed almost immediately. I'll be following your recoveries for as long as you keep pumping them out!
Its the suction of the mud that prevents lifting vehicle out of it. Like stepping in gooey mud and your shoe gets sucked off your foot. I learned a trick from a crusty old maintenance Master Sergeant when I was stationed in Germany. He had fabricated these long pipe sections that he could connect to an industrial air compressor. Drive the pipes under the stuck vehicle then blast air through them. The compressed air breaks the suction. We had an M113 that was stuck bigger that Stuttgart. Even tried an AVLS (M60 tank chassis based bridge launcher) to no avail. So this MSG pulls up, rigs up his pipes, blasts air under the M113, and we pull (winch) it out with a 5-ton wheeled wrecker. I don't know why I've never seen this technique used on any of these recovery videos, but hope this gives someone else an idea. But if someone patents it, I want royalties.
That is a great idea. Haha. been a long time since I heard the phrase " Bigger than Stuttgart ".
Was is Los? Der hund ist Los. I was stationed at Rivers Barracks ( The Zoo ) 1979 to 1983.
A Btry 3rd Bn 79th FA Lance Missile unit.
@@Bill23799 10th Engineer Schweinfurt, then Engineer Brigade Bamburg, 3ID, 91-94.
Ein bier bitte. Oberusel. 85-88.
A nifty idea!
Good point. When the English fought the French at Agincourt in 1415, the mud suction gave the English the victory. The English wore cloth, the French plate armor. If a French knight fell down in the muck, he could never get up as he was suctioned down into the mud. So an Englishman could just come over and stab the Frenchman through an appropriate hole. If a Frenchman fell face first, he would drown in his own armor. Mud can be nasty stuff.
I have been a equipment operator my entire life and I have never seen a piece of equipment that stuck yet. Good job men 👏 👍
You haven't been around enough if you think that was bad ....just saying ,suction was the biggest enemy on this job .
@@Jacob-64 I've never seen a machine that stuck before either and I've been operating machines in mud bogs, swamps and mountain passes.
The only machine I ever had to dig out that was mired in like that was an old Loraine drag shovel in a sand pit that hadn't been active in 4-5 years, so several years of wet seasons unmoved sitting on a sand bed, it had sank completely up to the cabin, To be fair, we were a little less kind with our choice of tools pulling it out. Dozers and skidders chained up together make for one hell of a pull. Still was a lot of digging, and work to get it out. The downside, the engine was not in serviceable condition so we pulled it out as complete dead weight
They only suck the undercarriage. I've seen excavators where the whole entire carbody is buried and part of the cab underneath
Guess some know when to get out when it gets deep 😂.
That’s crazy! I literally was part of the team who built the reservoir like 200 yards west of there back in 2011. We sunk a D6 up to the cab when we were digging for the dam embankment (among some other gear). That area has some of the worst clay, silt and liquefaction that I have ever seen in my life! I have a literally been stuck and lost boots from walking through it.
chek this one ua-cam.com/video/APNhASCpdxY/v-deo.html
. after those guys this guys is a childs xDDD
Wow
@@QarsherskiyRadio as i told ;)
@@Jimmy-1904 sure, i can sign your hat
Here in Bahariterra we have quicksand
Wow, four kids, his wife must be amazing, they have such a great family!
I wouldve loved to see some pressure washing and oiling of that thing
I was thinking the same thing at the end. I was like the job isn't done until those tracks have been cleared of debris.
Go watch the pressure washing guy.
@@Dave5843-d9m haha you're right, I should
You obviously know what you are doing, but the amount of people standing next to cables under tension gives me the willies. Stay safe and keep doing great work!
They seemed to have absolutely no respect for if one of those things breaks. I know they're professionals... .but yikes.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Wild.
I could tell pretty quick what kind of guy the owner was when he had his entire family with young kids getting close to watch it, he walked the taught pull rope like a tightrope, nobody was wearing any high vis or hardhats, the 450 squeaked constantly indicating it had no grease in any of the pins and was thus very poorly maintained, and the fact he had an ancient Cat D7 to help pull it free. All I'm saying is that I'm not super surprised he got that 450 that stuck.
@@iqcoolcup cake wars is very intense too!
Safety 10th is how the world was built
Have you considered just bringing one Toyota Hilux? Should be overkill for that job 🍻
Youve been watching whistlin diesel to much
I love your channel John Ross. 🙏👍🙏👍
Maybe use that Toyota as a swamp mat.🤣🤣🤣
@@ccsmith2937 ur y
@@Invisbleflame1 is du ft
Great recovery, it's knowing the ability of what your equipment is able to preform .
I feel like a time lapse of the whole event from one high angle on jobs like this would be really cool. Throw it in at the end so we can see how the whole job went down in a minute or two ;)
Great work for a drone
@@gubermon5903 a drone? Never I need to bee in the air for hours
That was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. You pretty much risked your own Excavator to get the other one out and saved one man's family of their livelihood. A big hug to you and your crew.
hardly their livlihood.
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You have not seen many things in your life, sorry
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so ur saying u like big hoes
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I really appreciate you guys. I'm a 66 year old African American who just love watching you guys. I love the respect and since of fun you guys have. I also like the way that you look out for people that are less fortunate. You guys are the epitome of doing the right thing and good fortune comes to you. Love it.
That was awesome and you helped the regular working hard family out of something that no one else could have! Excellent job and team work and excellent planning! I ❤️ watching this stuff!
Same here , I'm 55 tho. I had a chance back around 88 or 89 to go to school for free to learn to operate heavy equipment. They had a program here in Atlanta that gave you free lunch and paid for your bus fare to and from school . I was 18 or 19 at the time . My mom talked me out of it 😐. Always wished I would have went .
Why do you state your race?🤔
@@blackandbluecamaro2877 Hey there! I'm a bisexual Iranian dog with dryer lint in my trousers. Just dropping by to say that I sure love your work! Take care!
@@blackandbluecamaro2877 - Thought the same ... why is that necessary to say?
I think it will take 5 hours 23 minutes thanks Kenny Whitaker . Keep up the good work and I enjoy watching your channel.
Heavy D, from previous experience recovering Abrams Tanks and other similar heavy equipment from the mus. I have pumped air into the belly with hoses to counteract the mud's suction power and was sucessfull. put that one on the log for the next recovery!
Challenger 2 doesn't get stuck 😉
Dynamite was the cure when it was available.
Man that's a fantastic idea, sounds like the voice of experience.
You should consider buying some anti-whip blankets. You lay them over cables and straps to absorb the initial energy if they break. A broken cable almost cut my truck in half and I will not pull again without them. Cheap insurance
I agree just looking out would hate to see somthing happen to anyone
Cringing at this whole operation.
add to that he was in an open seat/cockpit, no door or cage even not that itd prob help anyway. yeah I agree, def must have when doing super heavy stuff like this.
@@angelo_giachetti Same. The cameraman between the two vehicles just feet from the tensioned cable… if it snapped he would have been in pieces.
I agree but then this video would not be a vehicle for his overwhelming macho self image. Everything is about him and his self image. The camera angles , the music, the "aren't I wonderful", everything is about him.
As a safety guy who has investigated too many trench collapses, these conditions really make me nervous with the combination of unconsolidated ground and water plus a lot of vibration from heavy equipment. As the video showed, those sides were very unstable and prone to sloughing. I was happy to see one side of the hole looked to be sloped back pretty well, the other side was a bit too vertical for my liking. It might be worth installing some shoring for projects like this in the future, but It seemed like everyone was aware of the hazards for the most part. You guys did good work and showed excellent communication. It's always a pleasure to see a group of professionals at work.
Absolutely wild, love these massive excavator recovery videos, the best!!
Well, in the army engineering corps the general thesis is, -you never pull a vehicle, with a vehicle lighter that the one you wise to pull. That could well be a sound thesis. Great and entertaining video.Glad to see the guy got his digger back.
With enough pulleys I've seen 10 men pull over a 10 ton army truck.
@@mouaxiong8618 With the right vector angle it can be done with 2.
With two chinooks you can pull dam neer anything out hooah
@kd78orangerangerpete The army corps of engineering, do most defiantly work in a real-world. But, they do things by numbers and not brute-force.
@Yippee Skippy Using blokes only increases the pull ability. It doesn't change the weight of the pulling vehicle (the anchor point). A 5 ton truck doesn't become a 30 ton armoured vehicle.
Matts is what saved the machine, it would've keep digging in without them. I did pipeline work for several years all through swamps, we used matts to do everything, we had one to fall in a sinkhole and the operator had to climbed out the top lid, it went down that fast like quicksand, took 3 days to dig it out, and 3 excavators and a dozer. Fun times. Enjoy the videos
45 hours
I pipelined too and we used hella mats through the swampy shit
@@caseygiles1368 truthfully, I don't even know what a hella mat is, I worked for NC natural gas in the 80s and 90s, all our pipeline went through the worst possible land they could use for a right away. I really enjoyed pipeline work but NC doesn't pay well.
Yeah I worked with Matt too, great guy. Always helped with getting out of a jam.
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It's incredible that your cables never break and kill everyone near them.
indeed ... flying bits of shackle!
Only takes once...and you'll never see that video.
@@butchgreene Happened to one of my ancestors in the 19th Century, a tug boat captain in Portsmouth UK. Cut in half when the hawse broke.
@@JelMain that's a very curious piece of info. it's cool that you can trace your lineage that far back, really gives you a healthier perspective on life
i know that my grand grand father war a blacksmith in a Siberian village, early 1900s, and he got kicked in the chest by a horse during horse shoe-ing process
@@TheBinaryHappiness Those were the days. The family was prominent in the town, which stopped for his funeral. Although we can't trace the lineage before c1760, their trade indicates they were from Orkney, in the clan which was headed by St Magnus, and from there the Sagas go back to c500CE, including such lovely people of Eric Bloodaxe. On the other side, with one uncertainty during the French Revolution when identities were fluid, we go back to Rome - but then again, so does much of Europe!
That dude's living the American dream. Beautiful family and a plot of land.
We have 4 450's they didn't come with much tracking power. You can multiple your towing power by hooking to the top of the track pads and not have to rely on the drives as much. Good job guys Northern Minnesota here and when we're stuck at 20 below it adds another twist.
Amazes me that people will stand next to a loaded cable and not think about what happens if it snaps.
Those chains are made for a lot more force than their machines can even produce. When done properly there isn’t really a threat in that regard
@@crazymuffinstv9024 I don’t care if it’s 5/8” grade 100. Always have an exit plan and cover. I’ve seen top of the line rigging fail, it happens.
I would have least put heavy moving blankets over the lines
@@99PMoon i dont think a moving blanket will stop a wire of that caliber.... it works great for small chains and ratchet straps though. But these cables they are hauling are heavy AF
@@99PMoon yeah nah failure of this kind of material can basically cut someone in half.
Amazing rescue...but the amount of people still near the cables under full pull is crazy...they'll rip you to pieces faster than a blink...
either use weighted bags on them or double the distance on the people ❤❤❤
Damn! First time to your channel and I'm impressed! This 72 year old retired teacher would have you as a neighbour in a heart beat. No! I don't need a backhoe operator... but a man with his head screwed on right... who knows how to treat others .. and what is really important in life ... and who works hard ..... with honesty ... you are my kind of human being! Stay safe , sir!
16 hours and 32 minutes
13 hours
You just said in another comment that you wouldn’t want those guys in your neighborhood.
You guys are really awesome.
I'm sitting here going come on, come on. Turn that turret on the 450 around, the counter weight is dragging and use that bucket to push. Soon as I thought that, he did it YEAH
Don't know why this popped up on my feed but it was both the most stressful and satisfying thing I've watched in a while!! I'll be subbing to this channel!
Lmao that’s same idk why it popped up
There’s an old timer that does similar videos just not as well edited
Yeah my randomly came up and now im watching through it im here for the long run
Same for me, I ignored it a few times but finally clicked it. Here's why:
1) you love your equipment as much as your dog; wouldn't you jump in a swamp to save it?
2) you're probably subbed to AvE. If not, then you should.
3) very high production quality, camera and editing.
Same
I'm thinking this one might take a couple of days! Teamwork makes the dream work!
I work on excavators at a dealer. That machine needs a pump/ work group adjustment. Not enough pressure going to the travel motors or work group. A simple turn of a couple reliefs would have made that recovery much easier.
So your saying that the track that moves it forward and reverse had minimized power and by tweaking some, ; valves? Would have gave it power to travel faster ?
That's possibility crossed my mind too! The turning power looked way to weak
@@srjr2531 That is exactly how it works
@@rolannolan9336 man this is a major life hack for anyone in that industry lol can never learn too much here on the good old UA-cam hopefully guy saw your post !
@@srjr2531 proper adjustment is what he is referring to. It is not a life hack. You will regret turn that screw with out knowing what you are working with or the tools to view your tampering
If there ever was a person who found their calling, it’s this man. He’s entirely too good at these huge problems.
When I first saw it, I thought 4 hours tops. Just not really that stuck. Another day in the office for us marine guys. After watching you guys, I'm thinking you spent closer to 8. A 12 ton machine with 30" wide tracks and no blade will make your life much better. In the future pick the sides up rather than toes and break the suction first. Saves tons of shovel work. Dig a short flat spot to walk up on mats without toeing up and then push yourself out. Could have been out the day he did it. Best part is , you got 3 million plus views.
THAT WAS AWESOME! I knew y'all would get it out of that deep hole! Much love and respect from Henderson Ga USA
This was great. It was neat to see that guys family out there digging with everyone. They were grateful for the answered call of help
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but I would place a few heavy rubber mats on the wires and slings when pulling mate...
Always plan for worst case, if they snapped there was several people within "severing" reach.
Just a suggestion, loved the vid and mad respect for your work ethic and the way you treat everyone.
They wouldn't severe anybody in half all they would do is hurt them in a royal fashion the only way I know this is cause I watched an episode of mythbusters that showed that snapping wire will not cut someone in half it'll hurt them like I said but there would be no severing its all a myth but I do see where ur coming from
@@johnt9911 Oh yes they DO INDEEP snap, and can turn people into hamburger. Myth Busters needs their bubble pooped...
I never said they don't snap what I meant was they don't cut people in half like u see in the movies
One hour 20 minutes
@@johnt9911 not true, had a wire rail, same general size they use here, snap in a crash and nearly cut a 10 year old in half. Died.
So, what was the 'owner' trying to do when he got stuck? What signals did he miss that allowed him to keep digging when he was in a hole he couldn't emerge from? I have a backhoe and I don't want to make the same errors while I'm digging my borrow pit.
Don't dig a circle around yourself.
Don’t watch or listen these dudes first off
Diggin down in what you think is only "soft" ground. you start seeing water seepage on either side get out. the ground youre digging is compact and solid but as you dig down and water seeps out from the sides in youll get stuck if you dont get out ASAP. Pretty sure this guy was in a dry area rain happened and then didnt back out and boom stuck.
Get trained or hire a professional lol
dont dig straight down, never dig straight down
I know I’m late to the party here I’m gonna say 40 hours at the 52 second mark…
I know a lot of editing goes into these however less than a day wow… I’m amazed
On next episode 5 ton wrecker gets beefed up with a stupid amount of pull power and is built with solid front bar that doesn't bend when anchored..it would be good to see some of the military stuff getting rebuilt for heavy duty recovery
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I like this idea, would be really cool to see some of the military trucks getting a little bit of a make over for heavy rescue/recovery.
Watching this reminds me of the time I got the family Volvo stuck in my kid's sandpit. I pretty much had to employ similar tactics as you guys.
I always liked Heavy D’s visions for trucks, but I like him even more now that I know he listens to Tech N9ne
Im almost 40 and I have no idea what that is
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Dude knows music.
Bro , this is incredible!! 😮
Enjoying the videos from Guyana 🇬🇾
One critique about your audio levels when the music comes on it's blasting - double the level of everything else..
I agree
whaaaaaaaaa
+1
@@RK-oi4qp I like my ears
How did this even get by the editor?
Ya'll must have the best karma in the world doing a recovery like that and helping out the cera gordo dude out just out of kindness.
Many blessings , SMR
God has richly blessed him. It is only appropriate that he share his blessings.
I don't think it took any longer then 3hrs 45mins
To be fair, he knew he'd have some great content out of the deal, but regardless, absolutely good karma
If I had it I would help 2 I love doing that stuff but my Tahoe and Toyota truck just won't do it !!! Like go to work or pull that out with all them big ass toys no brainer I'm playing till it's done 100% and having a great time !!
He ain't no Hindu
Had a coworker stick a similar excavator in a bog hole, here in interior Alaska. Once he moved onto that ground it began to sink and it was above the tracks before he could rotate the arm around and claw free. It took a 980 hooked to a 40 ton haul truck to reef it out. Took about four hours.
Watching from New Zealand...Beutifull result as always.I honestly enjoy watching all you guys do. !! Have fun !!
Take the arm off, install a cannon and build a house next to it. The ultimate in home security.
Or a rotating carport
Genius
I did not think that was coming out but well done as Matt's Off Road Recovery says ( YOU GOT UM OUT ) 🤣🤣👍🏼
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Slocum s Mt helena
Lol Ed for you
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Kk
Great job, looked like a lot of fun. I like all the "Factory" stuff on the big truck specially the bumper and tail lights, lol. Y'all are great, hope to meet y'all some day
I died at "factory rust"
The discipline of the crew is impeccable.
This looks like a very rewarding career. If I was 30 years yunger I would have been looking you up.
💯
Idk how I ended up on this channel but I'm having a good time, nice rescue boys!
Same
same
Same 😂
It’s because real women love watching real men. I’m hooked on this channel 👍❤️
Same! 😅
This was like LetsDig18 and Matt's Off Road Recovery in one show... Awesome 😁😁
Two excellent channels!
You nailed it
yankum ropes the red ones hahahah
ahh a man of culture I see
Matt would have hooked up the bannada and the morvair and had this out in no time LoL
23:00 "Clear the area encase a cable breaks, that's going to be a bad time for everybody" except for the camera man obviously... he never dies lol
Dude , That was amazing . I am sure the owner lost , many sleepless nights wondering if his machine was still there or continued sinking . I am glad you guys have a niche .
Not to worry, it would've shown up in china next month.
This is a team that respects one another, without a doubt. LOTS of lessons to be learned from this.
Should of called “Matts offroad recovery” to pull it out with the yellow banana
I was just wondering how many Morrvairs it would take.
Matt will be like Lizy turn the stearing this way, give it a little gas. Edd we got them out
I love watching your videos, never a dull moment. I guessing 16hrs and 37 minutes.
Thank to you guys after the loss of my son that just turned 21 I been watching videos non stop its helped me alot thank u guys
My thoughts are with you.
So sorry for your loss. That's one of the hardest things, when parents lose their children.
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Holy cow, that's the thickest Yankum rope I've ever seen + the soft shackle.
Welker farms also has some pretty thick stuff
Yeah, I am used to a "big" soft shackle being as big around as my finger, not my forearm. Wow. :-D
6 hours, 18 minutes, 34 seconds. Great job on the recovery, even with casualties to some of the equipment.
All of your videos I watch surprises me you're not more aware of what a huge benefit a pulley system would be.
The more pulley points you have the greater weight you can move. Off road 101
I like this channel more and more each time I watch. For being into so many cool things, guy stays super humble.
I have watched several similar recoveries in europe but this one realy does take the buscuit well done boys you are the recovery kings
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Yea...US just haaaaaave to be best. Right? xD is that europeans are smarter and dont get that stuck, or whats your point
@@Teknisk there is a corker in sweden terrabarion it took 2 big recovery truck to pull it out of blue clay
I'd dealt with similar, and this is what a guy taught me:
If possible, dig a pit nearby.
Put in a honking big pump (at least 4 inch hose two would be better) and de-water the ground...just pump it somewhere else.
Then you can work without 'pumping up' the soil so much when you move the equipment.
100 hours, good luck Diesel brothers watched all your shows loved it , Iron Mike
First I want to say I have never dealt with pulling something that huge and heavy out of a hole..
Question:
Would it have been easier to grade, the way they were pulling this out, back further so that the incline would be less & dig about a foot under the tracks, so when you put the mats down, the top of the mats would be level to the bottom of the tracks? Just curious if anyone else had the same opinion.
Man this needs to be a new TV series. Heavy D's heavy recovery
There's a show on Netflix similar to this but it's about recovering semi trucks with tow trucks.
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@@BearwoodBrown are you married
This was Great! I love it when you do heavy duty problem solving like this. Now you need to do a one hour show on having an industrial level Blacksmith repair the 5 ton's bumper. Also, five ton wreckers are cool but if want awesome, you need to get an Army 10 ton wrecker or the heavy tank recovery vehicle. VTR M88. The M88 is designed to rescue 50 ton tanks, has a huge winch and a spade blade on the front to anchor it while doing so. You will need a dragon wagon, (super duty Army low boy and 10 ton tractor) to move it around. It's not too road friendly, even though it has rubber on steel treads. I think it weighs around 80 tons.
You did well. 50 years ago I graduated in engineering. The first company I worked for was a mining company. They had a 17 yard drag line. It got stuck. It was the operators not the engineers that figured out how to get it out. Took almost a week. We used a lot of trees. Ground you were in looked like what we had dry on top, silty wet sand under that when disturbed would sink a pickup.
I love operating drag mines, I seriously wish all excavators were drag lines and not hydraulic
When you tried to lift the tracks before you started to pull it since you didn't remove the dirt from under the counter weight you essentially moved the pivot point from behind the tracks to the bottom corner of the counter weight so instead of just lifting the front of the tracks you had to lift the entire excavator up and pivot on the counter weight.
I think that by building a smooth ramp, the operation is greatly simplified. The angle of the ramp is very important to be smooth.
If OHSA sees this video, they’re going to blow a head gasket, having your guy riding on top of the cab was awesome
Not OSHA related. Not a Company, just a bunch of guys filming a videa...kinda like Jackass....lol
I'm going to get six hours and 30 minutes
@@michaelmason9367 why are you guessing the time in someone else's comment? It prob won't be seen when they look for answers in the comments...just a heads up.
If you dig a sump hole and submerge a cheep (electric) pump you can run it over night and pull the ground water out of an area. Clay is tricky but that’s what we do when working in south Louisiana
Done the same but it was a muddy mess.
Hard on the bearings.
What i wonder is how do ever get new asphalt to harden when it is soooo hot in Louisiana?
@@assassinlexx1993 Took weeks to harden in front of my house. We had to hit it with water to harden it.
@@assassinlexx1993 it does usually ruin the pump, but you can burry a hose too, if you have a trash pump that self primes and can run dry.
Asphalt really doesn’t harden in the summer time, it’s part of why our roads aren’t great. It’s kinda just an anti slip surface we cover the mud with 🤣🤣
@@ashtoncrow9368
Finally I know the answer. It is the mud that does the trick😎
You are right about the pump. But you use what the boss gives you.🤐
Let's dig 18 is the guy that has the art of these jobs .
I appreciate the patience and professionalism here. Nicely Done !!!
Matt’s off road recovery Covair would have gotten it out with 3 pulls
Nah at least 5 🤣
Might be a Banana/ Morevair tag team 😆
Just need Ed there to give the weather report.
Are you single ?
@@maryjohn2988 nah
The algorithm really thinks ill watch just about anything… its not wrong
Edit: this was a lot more interesting than i thought, thanks algorithm :)
Same
Lol last video I watched was smoking blunts inside walmart. I get the weirdest shit and I usually watch it.
Yep enjoyed it too lol
😂 ditto
8:30 can't believe you guys got it out so quick.
This was superb viewing, informative too as we got a glimpse into the real world of heavy equipment recovery from challenging terrain.
It was hugely enjoying seeing those tracks clear and to see movement, nice too was seeing the lovely family whose investment was finally coming home.
Great video, excellent narration and editing, subscribed.
It’s nice seeing a new guy in recovery learning the ropes.
7.38 hours
I was wondering how long it would take for them to finally turn around and try to push them selves
This would have finished to soon, would have missed the whole fun 😂
Seeing the bumper on the 5 ton going all Picasso reinforces my thoughts on making a spine other than the frame to tie the rear hitch point to a front hitch point. The spine would be the load bearing portion on extreme pulls that require an anchor.
Holy stuck! I'm surprised it wasn't just buried and forgotten. You guys rock!
That much money? HELL NO
Plus there is always a way with these things.
I bet this was like a 6.5 hr job, placing those mats correctly probably took most the time.
Great vid and keep up the awesome work you do!
Great job guys! On a side note, I work in excavations and I would seriously consider some sort of shoring or sloping. I've witnessed one to many deaths in my 28 yrs of dirt work. Stay safe
Yes !! I didnt understand why he didnt stair step the sides back from the stuck excavator .
Hi can you explain what that means? Thanks!
@@TheAnonymous1one with steep walls of dirt, especially when saturated with water, the walls become extremely unstable. They could give way at any given moment and crush anybody that it falls on. They should've at least stepped the walls or done 34° slope.
You need a tiltrotator like Steelwrist or Engcon on that Sany asap.
Maybe a Wacker Neuson excavator as well 😁😁
Crane: 'stuck'
HeavyD: "Hey stepsis!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 legend
"crane" yes but no
Im binge watching from 7 yrs back till now, I guessed 14 hrs, but no where did it say how long cept it took one day.. great job men and MAMA out there digging too. I love love all your content!
I enjoyed how his wife jumped into the hole with a shovel and was helping out. Great gal there.
When they charge by the hour
I bet she’s great a other things aswel
@@KoalaEater Like digging graves maybe
@@greg4172 yeah probably among others like cooking cleaning
@@KoalaEater I think you got your answer when she was introduced with all their kids😂😂
Incredible video of a NEVER GIVEUP TEAM - exciting and impressive use of equipment. All I can say is WOW!